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From Our Own Correspondent

Making peace with Israel

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements to normalise relations with Israel, this week, motivated by a desire to build a united front against Iran. Palestinians have condemned the move as a betrayal. Yolande Knell reports on out how the deal has gone down with young Emiratis and Israelis. Wildfires continue to rage across the West Coast region of the United States. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as over four and a half million acres of land have now been scorched. President Trump visited this week and blamed “poor forest management” for the conflagrations. California’s governor insisted they’re due to climate change. Peter Bowes knows the devastation and destruction of these fires all too well.... On the Greek island of Lesbos, efforts have begun to move thousands of migrants and refugees from the fire-gutted Moria camp to a new tent city nearby. The camp had become overcrowded and squalid, and now many would prefer to leave Lesbos altogether. But where can they go, asks Bethany Bell. In Romania, the small Transylvanian village of Viscri has become a magnet for tourists, including the Prince of Wales. Stephen McGrath has been finding out why, and what impact it's been having. It would normally be peak safari season in the Serengeti region in northern Tanzania at this time of year, with carloads of tourists hoping to catch a glimpse of a giraffe, an elephant or even a pride of lions. But this year the visitors have stayed away because of the coronavirus. Well, not all of them. Michelle Jana Chan did go, and got a front row seat seeing some of nature’s grandest spectacles.

Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius

Transcript

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Good morning.

0:06.6

Today there may be a hint of autumn here

0:09.6

even while the sun shines,

0:11.7

but in the American West Coast states high summer fires are still

0:15.4

raging and thousands have had to flee, something our correspondent knows about all too well.

0:22.4

Migrants and asylum seekers had to flee a huge fire on the Greek island of Lesbos,

0:28.0

their camp destroyed, where will or where can they go?

0:33.0

In the Serengeti, it's the safari season in the year of COVID,

0:38.0

so fewer sightseers, but we encounter some emboldened hippos and skittish lionesses.

0:45.0

And lots of visitors to a small Transylvanian village in Romania,

0:50.0

a place much favoured by the Prince of Wales. We ask why.

0:55.0

First, the Middle East, and agreement signed by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain

1:01.0

to normalise relations with Israel, not entirely in order to promote neighborly

1:06.5

feelings but showing the desire to build a front against their common enemy Iran. The Palestinians have condemned the move as a betrayal, but Yolandel

1:17.6

has been sounding out young Emiratis and Israelis about the deal.

1:21.8

Saude, in his white robe, puts on a face mask and steps out of his 4 by 4.

1:27.0

I just want to show you one of my favorite spots, he says, holding up his smartphone camera. You get to see the beach of Dubai and the

1:36.2

skyline of our beautiful city. The video his filming is for new friends of the young

1:41.2

Emirati in Israel.

1:43.4

Soon after Washington announced an historic peace accord between Israel and the United Arab

1:48.0

Emirates or UAE last month, a group of young Israelis reached out to Emiratis on social media.

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